Harvey Williamson wrote:michiguel wrote:Harvey Williamson wrote:Albert Silver wrote:Damir wrote:You forgot to mention it is using 128 cores cluster. On the other hand, It would be a complete failure, if it did not win the tournament...
Considering that huge clusters have more often not won, than won, it is a very nice victory. A hearty congrats to Gian-Carlo, and to Peter Skinner for a great tourney once again!
Sjeng and Rybka are the only top programs that, currently, use Clusters and would have good chances of winning without using a Cluster. Rybka has won CCT the last few years not sure how many were on its Cluster.
I wish we could afford 80+ i7 cores
A nice tournament involving MI5 and Mossad. Congrats to Sjeng and well done Peter. The only thing that spoilt it for me was the incident in the last round when Junior was forced to forfeit its game.
What happened? I fell asleep last round.
Miguel
In the final round Junior disconnected for just over the 5 minutes allowed and then returned. The Komodo operator agreed to play on. 43 minutes later when Junior had what looked like a won game the Komodo programmer turned up and claimed the game. The claim was upheld.
Nothing that happened was publicly reported, so how would you have any idea of what really happened?
Your version of events is wrong in every detail and you should get your facts straight before you decide to condemn others in public. Obviously, you are getting your facts from a biased source.
There is a LOT here that I have kept quiet for a good reason - I don't intend to make any accusations that cannot be absolutely proved and you should do the same.
Besides not knowing the facts, nobody should be criticized for expecting the clearly stated rules to actually be respected. Also, nobody should have to fight to get a rule enforced and it should not even be up to the players or operators which rules they choose to honor or ignore because every result affects every player, not just the two playing.
Although they game ended with a forfeit, there is an interesting side-note. Near the end of the game, a draw by repetition happened - Junior had 2 rooks vs a king and could not checkmate (a common bug that I have had myself.) I was annoyed by this too because if you are in the mode of ignoring rules they might make a case that the game should be considered a win anyway (out of good sportsmanship) and I half expected to see yet another disconnection.